Methods and systems for repairing playlists

Abstract

Various systems and methods described above permit a user's content experience (e.g. music playing experience) to be monitored and for metadata describing this experience to be collected. This metadata can be dynamically updated as a user experiences media content and then used to impart to the user a personalized experience that is tailored to that specific user. A user's metadata can, in some instances, provided across a wide variety of computing devices on which the user may experience the media content, thus standardizing the user's personalized media experience. In addition, intelligent or “smart” playlists can be provided which, in some instances, can be dynamically and automatically updated to reflect current user experiences, thus providing a highly personalized and enjoyable content experience.

1. A system comprising:
 a computer-readable media; 
 computer-readable instructions on the computer readable media which, when executed produce:
 an automatically adaptive playlist; 
 the playlist being generated from an associated playlist file; 
 
 the playlist file being configured with data for automatically re-defining a path to media content associated with the playlist; and
 in an event a first path defined in the playlist file cannot be followed to the associated media content, the instructions operating on said data to re-define the first path to the media content. 
 
 
   
   
     2. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist is adaptive responsive to a user's listening habits. 
   
   
     3. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist is adaptive responsive to multiple users' listening habits. 
   
   
     4. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist is configured to be periodically and automatically regenerated. 
   
   
     5. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist describes music content. 
   
   
     6. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist is adaptive without requiring any activity on the part of a user to maintain the playlist. 
   
   
     7. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist is extensible. 
   
   
     8. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the playlist is extensible by a third party.